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Originally Posted by HarryT
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Note that is actually an opinion of a lawyer and not an actual court decision.
But anyway with 4 pages of disclaimers one might could get away with using brand names. Now I doubt a big company would go after someone because of the publicity.
What I do know about the media and products is they cannot be used for commercial use without explicit permission and usually compensation.
As a matter of fact, some self-published authors have found their books taken down because they photographed a trademark item and made it into a cover.
Trademarks are very guarded here in the US.
Oh and heaven help you if you use anything Disney.
You can use Cinderella but any description or picture had better not even remotely resemble the Disney version.
Oh and other problem with brand names is some of them are regional.